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(10/04/00 5:14am)
Dozens of companies ranging from Caterpillar to Charles Schwab to the Central Intelligence Agency flocked to Alumni Hall Tuesday as part of the annual Information Technology Career Fair. \nSponsored by the Arts and Sciences Placement Office, this year's fair was the largest ever, with 61 companies.\n"We didn't even advertise the fair -- they (the companies) call us," said Susi Miller, the senior assistant director of the Arts and Sciences Placement Office. "If we had advertised the fair to companies, we would have had more than we could handle."\nRegardless of going unpublicized, Alumni Hall was filled with the companies' booths and hundreds of students looking for positions in information technology. Students who preregistered for the fair had a chance to submit their resume into a large resume book that was given to each attending company. As students attended the fair, they could set up interview times with the companies.\n"A lot of times it is difficult to get interviews through the Business Placement Office," said Kyle Richter, a senior majoring in computer information systems. "It's better to come up and sell yourself in person."\nAs the information technology field expands, jobs are becoming available in companies not commonly associated with technology. Although Dell, IBM and Hewlett-Packard were all present, computer manufacturers were a minority of the 61 participating companies. The majority were in fields like government, consulting, management systems and manufacturing.\nCaterpillar, Inc., a worldwide leader in construction equipment, has 140 information technology openings in Peoria, Ill. The openings include jobs in corporate-level information technology application, stock brokering, programming, telecommunications and person-to-person conferencing, company representative Mike Brinkman said. \nParticularly attractive to potential employers is IU's strong academic reputation, particularly the strong business and computer science programs, said Braun Consulting representative Rachel Freeman. \n"We look here at IU because of the discipline and geographic diversity of the students," Freeman said. "The students here are well-rounded in their education and are well-versed in technology." \nAnother group that came to IU for the same reason was the CIA, which hired four students into full-time positions last year.\n"We are looking for people to work in software development and design," said Michael Coles, head of Midwest recruiting for the CIA. "We look for the best and the brightest students, and many of them come from IU's outstanding computer science program." \nAlthough the focus of the fair was information technology, students not enrolled in classes in the field were encouraged to attend the fair and seek opportunities, Miller said.\n"I'm interested in trying to find a way to use skills from sociology and apply them to information technology," said Brooke Howell, a senior majoring in sociology.\nInterviews begin today for students pursuing positions with the companies. Students who submitted resumes but did not attend still have a chance to receive interviews if the companies take interest and notify them.\nThe Arts and Sciences Placement Office's next fair is the Social Service and Non-Profit Job Fair, Nov. 1 at Alumni Hall. \nFor more information on career opportunities and job fairs, visit www.indiana.edu/~career.
(09/27/00 5:49am)
It seems the second time is a charm for IU's digital music library. \nThe University applied for a grant from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities two years in a row. IU found out this week it will receive the $3 million grant for digital music library research.\n"We received the funding because we're building on successes that we've had in the past, particularly with Variations," said Kristine Brancolini, director of digital libraries. "We're very proud of this grant because it capitalizes on our expertise, particularly in music here at IU."\nVariations is a computerized collection of about 10,000 hours of audio files only available in IU's music library. Started in 1996, Variations has been popular with music students. \n"The variations project was a first of its kind and marked IU's status as a leader in the use of information technology in the field of music," said associate music professor Eric Isaacson.\nIU will use the money to research making the library more available and more interactive.\n "The ultimate goal of the digital music library is to have a user sit down at their computer and search for a piece of music, or a composer, or a type of music -- and be able to get that music in all types of formats," said Jon Dunn, the University Libraries' assistant director of digital libraries. "They should be able to locate a score of the music, sound recordings that are available, find musical notation, and perhaps even video recordings."\nThe University will receive money over the next four years, during which an experimental database for the new digital music library will be established. The database will be based on content from Variations and will be the culmination of the faculty research on digital libraries. \nDuring the research, Variations will continue operating normally. The new system will use Internet 2 -- a high-speed network now being offered to many universities around the world. IU serves as the network operations center of Internet 2.\nThe database will also be available to researchers, certain faculty, and some remote sites around the world. The remote sites include locations in other U.S. universities, and range as far as Oxford University and Waseda University in Japan.\nThe projects brings together faculty from various departments at IU. Music experts, librarians, technicians, researchers and administrative staff will all devote more of their time to research for the music library. They will investigate ways to make the library more interactive and take in-depth looks at copyright law, human-computer interaction and incorporation into teaching and learning.\n"We have investigators from the Main Library and from the music library, so there is a good bit of collaboration already in place," said Gerry Bernbom, director of research and academic computing for University Information Technology Services. "I think the level of collaboration is going to increase even more."\nDunn will be working with a team of programmers on software design and development for the music library. Andrew Dillon, associate professor of information science, computer science and informatics, will be researching human-computer interaction. Law professor Kenneth Crews will research legal issues concerning copyrights and content. Isaacson said he is seeking ways to incorporate the new digital music library into his curriculum. \n"Doing listening activities with actual pieces in a class full of students is difficult," Isaacson said. "It would be better if a student could be sitting at a computer, listening to the piece and answering questions about it, which can be immediately judged."\nThe University hasn't yet nailed down details on how the grant will be implemented.\n"How do we design for optimal use? What kind of features and functionality do music students want? What makes the tools and technologies easy to use?" asked School of Library and Information Science Dean Blaise Cronin. \nTo better answer these questions, Suzanne Thorin, dean of the University Libraries, said use of the current digital music library system is being monitored. Thorin cited close collaboration between faculty researchers and students as a key for success. The faculty researchers will be relying on user-testing labs and surveys to get input on the interface.\nBrancolini said non-musical content for digital libraries will not forgotten. \n"A lot of things that we learn during this project will generalize to other things that we are working on," Brancolini said. "We'll learn a lot that we can apply to other digital library work, especially regarding user interface design and usability."\nThe digital library can be accessed at dlib.indiana.edu.
(09/25/00 11:40pm)
By the year 2005, nearly a third of IU's 264 general purpose classrooms will be outfitted with modern technology and multimedia. More than seven and a half million dollars will be spent during the five-year period to bring classrooms up to speed, installing devices such as DVD players, VCRs, Macintosh and IBM computers, touch-pad screens, digital cameras, cable TV and the Internet.\n"We know now from research that passive learning is simply not the best way to learn," said Bloomington Chancellor Kenneth Gros Louis. "Technology is a critical part of teaching and learning."\nThe upgrade is part of IU's cross-campus initiative to update the technology in the total 680 classrooms. Heading the program is the Office of the Vice President of Information Technology, University Information Technology Services and Instructional Support Services.\n"Basically, we are creating four different levels of technological classrooms, working up from elementary technology to fully advanced," said Vice President for Information Technology Michael McRobbie.\nA level one classroom is one which does not have any installed technology, but is conducive to the use of mobile technology.\nLevel two classrooms typically seat fewer than 40 and usually contain a TV/VCR and an overhead projector.\nLevel three classrooms are dubbed "Mid-range Technology Classrooms," and contain at least a large display video projector, VCR, computers with network connection and a telephone.\nLevel four classrooms are similar, but include more advanced technology systems, such as the touch-pad control system.\nIn conjunction with upgrading the technology, many of the rooms are being renovated at the same time.\nMuch of the funding for the upgrading program is coming from state legislation passed in 1999, which allots 3.6 million dollars a year to IU campuses. Of that total, the Bloomington campus uses 1.5 million.\nMark Kruzan and Vi Simpson, legislators and key supporters of the information technology legislation, visited Friday morning to see how the money had been put to use.\nThe legislators were shown the expensive technology in Woodburn 101, a level four classroom.\n"We're not just throwing money at the problem and hoping it will go away-that would be a mistake," McRobbie said. "We are providing support to continue to upgrade the technology as it changes in the future."\nGros Louis said at the end of the five years, one third of Bloomington's 264 campuses will be level three or four classrooms.\n"With the technology upgrade, we are looking to transform the campus, and yet, not change it at all," he said.\nAs more technology becomes available, the challenge is to get the faculty up to speed, he added.\n"More and more faculty will begin to take on the technology and learn it," said Beverly Teach, director of media resources for Instructional Support Services.\n"Eventually, every room will have to have advanced technology installed, because that is what will be expected"
(09/20/00 5:26am)
All week, the University Information Technology Services is "Making IT Happen!" \nUITS is sponsoring the first information technology week on all IU campuses to raise students' awareness of available resources.\n"Students tend to use one area of technology and become adept in that area, but then miss out on other areas and resources that are available to them," said Michael McRobbie, vice president of information technology.\nThe featured speaker of ITweek is Brian Hawkins, president of Educause, a nonprofit organization that works with universities to advance information technologies. Educause works with more than 1,700 colleges and universities across the world. Hawkins' talks have been broadcast on the ITweek Web site, itweek.iu.edu.\n"In terms of the total information out there, we are collecting less and less," Hawkins said in his Tuesday morning talk. "We are living in the information age, but in terms of collecting it, it is becoming a dark age." \nFrom 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today and Thursday, an information booth will be open in the atrium of the the Main Library. Today's programs include: learning HTML, creating personal homepages at IUB, a preview of the new online library catalog and a sneak preview of the upcoming Web-based e-mail client.\nThursday, programs include tours of the language labs, the Stat/Math center and the teaching and learning technologies lab. Tours and trials of state-of-the-art virtual reality technology are available in the advanced visualization lab, located in Lindley Hall room 135, from 1-4 p.m. Students can also visit the ITweek Web page for more information on any of the activities being sponsored. \nThis week is the first year of "Making IT happen!" If successful, it will be sponsored again in the future, McRobbie said. \n"There's so much information and technology available on this campus that hearing about it can become white noise, and you tend not to really hear about it," said Amy Lawson, a graduate student and UITS employee. "That is why we wanted to get out here in public where we can talk to people, pass things out, and let them know what is available"
(09/07/00 4:19am)
Hebrew and English were both understood in the Lilly Library lounge Wednesday afternoon. Moshe Ron, known for his translations from English to Hebrew, visited IU to speak about the differences between cultures and the importance of translating literature between cultures.\nThe event was sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, and was cosponsored by the Department of English and the Jewish Studies Program.\n"Literary translation provides a conduit for the culture of one nation to flow into another nation," Breon Mitchell, professor of comparative literature and Germanic studies, said. "That's why I think (Ron's) work is so important."\nRon, a native of Tel Aviv, Israel, started by translating a Raymond Carver novel into Hebrew. He continued by publishing an anthology of 21 stories by American author Donald Bartleby. \n"I was interested in the type of authors who would publish their books in the fiction category," Ron said.\nRon focused on Raymond Carver, who he feels is a model writer for Israelis. He noted that Carver has a unique style that Hebrew literature has failed to accomplish in the past. \n"Israel is a small linguistic community of only about four million people, and I am using my skills to bring in literature from other broader cultures," he said. He said he feels that young Israeli authors have already begun to learn from translated texts, and hopes they will learn more in the future.\nIn the near future, Ron said he plans to publish a revised and enlarged version of his Bartleby anthology and an anthology of seven 19th-century authors from different countries, all involving portraits. The anthology will include American writers Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James.
(09/01/00 6:26am)
One day, walking to the library will be obsolete. Yet that day is far off, as the trend of digitizing information from libraries and other sources is still relatively new to many universities and organizations. But the process of putting library information on the Web is not new to IU ' the digital library has been established for four years.\n"We are nationally recognized and we are getting more and more high profile," said Dean of University Libraries Suzanne Thorin. Thorin has been working with the digital library since she came to IU from the Library of Congress in 1996. \nThe program is a joint effort of the IU libraries, the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, the School of Library and Information Sciences and University Information Technical Services. But until recently the program did not have a director.\nOn Aug. 1, after a national search, Kristine Brancolini was chosen as the new permanent director. She had already been functioning as acting director for several years.\n "Having a national search is always helpful to get the right person for the job," Thorin said. "We realized we had one of the best people right here among us for the job … and that is something to be proud of. She (Brancolini) now moves more into an administrative strategic role as director, and will be hiring a project director in the near future."\nBrancolini is not new to the campus ' in 1983, she began working at the Main Library in charge of media resources. Now, as director, she credits her experience with faculty and students for her success.\n"As a librarian, nothing you learn is ever lost," she said.\nNot only has Brancolini been in the field for 17 years ' she is also a mother of three and a spare-time video producer.\nBrancolini will report about the library to a steering committee: Thorin; Vice President for Information Technology Michael McRobbie; Dean of Library and Information Sciences Blaise Cronin and Copyright Management Center Director Kenneth Crews.\n"Her (Brancolini's) successful track record in building partnerships across campuses and among different departments will be a big plus," McRobbie said.\nThe steering committee hopes to use Brancolini's skills to meet the goal of integrating IU Bloomington's resources with the other campuses. The digital library is also aiming to incorporate and share information with other digital libraries on both the state and national level in the future.\nIU's digital library is a member of the Digital Library Federation, based in Washington, that unites 26 universities in their attempts to digitize information.\n"We also work with the Big 10 consortium of universities on projects," said Perry Willett, head of the Library Electronic Text Resource Service. Willett has worked on digitizing collections since he joined IU in 1992.\nThe digital library is composed of many different collections, which are groups of resources that deal with one topic of information. Current collections on the Web site include a documentation of the Russian Periodical Index, music of Hoagy Carmichael, the work-in-progress Victorian Women Writer's project and others.\n"We have been working on a collection of photos from the IU-Gary campus that document the growth of the U.S. Steel facility there as well as the town," Willett said. "We have also worked on acquiring collections from commercial publishers." There is currently a preview of the U.S. Steel project available on the Web site.\nEventually, students should be able to go to one Web site and search all of the digital libraries around the world for the information they need, Brancolini said.\n"There is a lot of work being done on how to search across the different digital libraries," Thorin said. "In terms of searching for resources, the tools on the Web are inadequate."\n Brancolini said she encourages students to visit the digital library Web site and make use its resources. \n"The digital library is more than just books online … it includes music, photos and many unique resources that can't be found in other places," Brancolini said. "We want students to give us feedback and make sure the library presents information in ways that communicate to them."\nHowever, the walk to the library is still necessary for now, as both Brancolini and Willett assured that conventional libraries will not be disappearing any time soon. \n"Given just the massive amounts of information we have in print, as well as other sources, regular libraries won't disappear any time in the foreseeable future," Willett said.